A man killed in a shootout with marines in western Mexico on Sunday was a leader of the Knights Templar Cartel who the government reported dead in 2010, according to forensic evidence. […] One of the officials said Sunday’s shootout happened near the farming hub of Apaztingan in the heart of western Michoacan state, where the Knights Templar have ruled through stealing, killing and extortion.

Moreno, nicknamed “The Craziest One”, would have turned 44 on Saturday, according to a government birthdate. He led the La Familia Michoacana cartel when he supposedly perished in a two-day gunbattle with federal police in December 2010 in Michoacan, his home state. No corpse was found then, however.